Sickle
device · 10000 BC · Stone Age
A curved blade for harvesting.
What it is made of
- Curved sickle blade — has part. A semicircular blade gathers the stems to the cut.
- Handle — has part. A short one-handed handle.
Principles and materials it uses
- Flint — is made of. Neolithic sickles were a wooden base with flint inserts.
- Wood — is made of. The base and handle of a sickle are wooden.
- Grain — uses. Cereals were reaped with a sickle.
- Wedge — uses. The cutting edge is a wedge.
Where it is used
- Domestication — is used in. Harvesting wild cereals with sickles.
History: what it evolved from and what it influenced
- Stone tool — evolved from. The first sickles had flint inserts.
- Lawn mower — evolved into. Mechanized mowing.
- Combine harvester — evolved into. The machine replaced reaping by hand.
- Reaper — evolved into. Mechanical reaping.
- Scythe — evolved into. Mowing while standing, with a long snath.